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The fittings were in excellent taste, and the equipment fully adequate to the needs of the service: an old table, on legs somewhat rickety; upon the table, a rude box, set on end and divided roughly into eight pigeon holes, duly numbered; in the table, a drawer, filled a little with stamps and stationery, filled mostly with scraps of leaf tobacco, and an odd company of veteran cob pipes, now on the retired list, or home on furlough; before the table, a little old chair, wrought in some fearful and wonderful fashion from hickory sticks from which the bark had not been removed.
What does he do? Wasn't he in the stationery line? I fell foul of him one evening, I remember, at bowls. Ned Lambert smiled. Yes, he was, he said, in Wisdom Hely's. A traveller for blottingpaper. In God's name, John Henry Menton said, what did she marry a coon like that for? She had plenty of game in her then. Has still, Ned Lambert said. He does some canvassing for ads.
If it had been meant for her to have stationery, and to set Alden free in that way, it would have been mysteriously provided she was certain of that. She saw, too, that the way upon which we are meant to go is always clear, or at least indicated, at the time we are meant to take it; that guidance is definitely felt through the soul's own overpowering conviction.
But the king's uncles, nephews, nieces, cousins, and his wife's relations generally, every one of them, wanted a lion on his or her stationery and pocket handkerchiefs, as well as on their shields and flags. So the old lion was tortured the hot poker being always in sight and he was made to take a great variety of positions.
by Oneonta, N.Y.: Herald and Democrat Press Oneonta, N.Y. CHRISTMAS, VALENTINE, Cards NEW YEAR, EASTER, Stationery and Stationery Articles of all Kinds. Mendel Brothers, Oneonta, N.Y. Ready-Made Clothing, OIL CLOTHS, CARPETS, Etc. by Preface. In the preparation of the following pages, I have not attempted to give a complete history of the town of Oneonta.
"But I never dreamed " "Why," exclaimed Mrs. Winnie, "their mail is full of blue and gold monogram stationery! I've known guests to sit down and write gossip about their hostesses in their own homes. Oh, you've no idea of people's vileness!" "I had some idea," said Montague, after a pause. "That was why I wished to protect you." "I don't wish to be protected!" she cried, vehemently.
"There is a portfolio of stationery on the table over there. In about an hour you may come up and get some letters I want you to mail for me. Do you know where the postoffice is?" "Yah, I bane there for my mail which come to a window." "Well, take my letters all the way to the post-office. You understand." "Yah, I ain't bane no fool." "Oh, excuse me," he said cynically.
Here he found a short individual in charge of a general business, including stationery, candy, newspapers, and toys, in addition to the articles for smokers. Garrison pulled out his memorandum concerning that box of cigars still in possession of Pike, at Branchville.
He reached home that night, surprising the housekeeper and servants. To his amazement, they knew absolutely nothing of Dick Cronk. He had not been there, nor any one answering to the description. David was thunderstruck. He carefully examined the letter, which he had retained. There could be no mistake as to the stationery or the postmark.
He held successively the appointments of Commissioner of Customs and Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Political annalist, ed. at Eton and Oxf., was a page to George III., sec. to Earl Bathurst, and afterwards held the sinecure office of Sec. of Jamaica.
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